Pin.



G. G. KING.

PIN.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 28, 1911.

' 1,074,270. Patented Sept. 30, 1913.

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Application filed December 2a, 1911.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I CLIFFORD G. KING, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and: State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pins, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of pins adapted for wear as articles of personal adornment, comprising a front or ornamental body or base and a pin member pivotally connected with the rear of the body and engaged by a catch. Such pins or brooches are subject to accidental disengagement, and the primary purposes of my invention are to effectually prevent the'accidentaldisengagement of the pin from the fabric; to effect this end by a device which will at the same time prevent any transverse rocking of the pin body after application to the fabric; and to attain these, ends by a structure simple in form, inexpensive, easily assembled, and adaptable to use in various styles of pin bodies.

To the above ends essentially my invention consists in such parts and combinations of parts as fall within the scope of the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings which form a part of this specification, Figures 1 and 2 are side and plan elevations respectively of the pin embodying my invention, Fig. 8, a longitudinal central section of the same, Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are transverse sections of the samerespectively upon lines a m, 1 y, and a z'of Fig. 3, Fig. 7, a plan elevation of the resilient member, and Fig. 8, a like elevation of a modified resilient member.

Like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the views.

My invention consists essentially in applying to the body portion of the pin resilient, parallel, interspaced members adapted to cooperate with the pin tongue to force the engaged fabric into the space between the resilient members.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 30,1913. Serial No. 668,275.

of to points near the pin joint 0 and the pin catch D. Mounted upon the usual pivot c in the joint G is the pin tongue E adapted to engage the catch D. In conjunction with the described parts I employ a resilient frictional device adapted to cooperate with the pin tongue E. This device I strike out preferably from a fiat sheet of metal, or bend up from a wire into the form shown at G in Figs. 3 and 7. This member G is oblong in shape and comprises two longitudinally disposed, interspaced rods 9, the space being indicated in Fig. 7 by the reference character 9. It will be noted by reference to Fig. 3 that while the intermediate portion of the member G is longitudinally arched, the ends of the member are very slightly inclined and rest upon the inner face of the front plate A, passing in contact with clownwardly directed lugs h integral with the back plate 13 and located at the inner margins of the longitudinal slot 5. The ends of the member G, it will be noted, extend along the inner face of the face plate A and beneath the unslotted portion of the back plate B a sufficient distance to protect these ends from becoming accidentally exposed or removed, while the intermediate or arched portion of the member or rods 9 is so related to the pin tongue E that the latter when engaged with the catch D passes along .the opening g between the rods 9 either in the plane of the latter or in very nearly the same plane. The described form or member G having closed ends is for that reason also further protected against accidental disengagement from the pin body since the lugs h extend through the longitudinal space g.

Although the member G is preferred by me as a frictional member for the reason already given and because of its facile construction, it will be understood that the modified form or member G shown in Fig. 8 may be employed if desired, this member consisting of two detached, parallel, interspaced rods 9 longitudinally arched at an intermediate portion corresponding with the arch of the rods g. In this form the rods are made of such length that when they are in their distended arched form, their ends will not be laterally displaced from the lugs or keepers h.

In the broken lines in Fig. 3 is shown the action of the member G when the pin tongue E has pierced a fabric and the latter has been pressed down upon the arched portion of the member G. It will be understood that not only does the resilient member G tend to yieldingly press the fabric into engagement with the tongue E, but what is equally important the pin is prevented from rocking by the reason of interspaced relation of the rods 9 upon whose upper surfaces rests the surface of the fabric. The surfaces of the rods 9 constitute a materially large or broad area or bearing, and the fabric is forced firmly against this resulting seat or hearing by the position of the tongue E intermediate the rods g and in the horizontal plane or nearly horizontal plane of these rods.

hat I claim is,

1. In a pin, the combination with a body, joint and catch, of a pin tongue mounted in the joint and adapted to engage the catch and longitudinally disposed rods provided with arched intermediate portions extending through slots in the body, and means within the body with which the ends of said rods are slidingly held against displacement, said rods being disposed upon either side of the vertical plane of the pin tongue.

2. In a pin, the combination with a body portion comprising a front plate and a back plate, of a joint and catch mounted upon the back plate, a pin tongue mounted in the joint and engageable with the catch, said Copies of this patent may be obtained for back plate being provided with longitudinally disposed openings, inwardly extending lugs upon the back plate near the ends of the openings, and resilient arched rods extending through the openings, engaging the lugs and disposed at each side of the vertical plane of the pin tongue.

8. The pin described comprising a body portion consisting of a front plate and a back plate, the latter having longitudinal slots upon opposite sidesof its center and with downwardly directed lugs at the inner margins of said slots, a joint and catch mounted upon said back plate, a pm tongue mounted in the joint and engageable with the catch, and a resilient friction device'cooperating with saidtongue and comprising CLIFFORD e. KING.

Witnesses:

J. E. OLEGG, L. M. CREssMAN.

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